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Celebrated poet and author Nikki Giovanni helps to expand and enrich young minds in Blacksburg, where she's a professor of English at Virginia Tech. Still, she's not exactly cloistered in her mountain-top, ivory tower. She gets around. Giovanni, who grew up in an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, is an enthusiastic world traveler. Also, back in 2010, she was bouncing around the United States to promote a new collection, "The 100 Best African American Poems," which she edited. Giovanni doesn't sit still — physically or creatively. She's the author of more than 30 volumes of poetry and prose, including her autobiography "Gemini," which was a...

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Celebrated poet and author Nikki Giovanni helps to expand and enrich young minds in Blacksburg, where she's a professor of English at Virginia Tech. Still, she's not exactly cloistered in her mountain-top, ivory tower. She gets around.Giovanni, who grew...